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21 days to establish a new habit, right? WRONG!

January 1, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

We’ve all seen that quote — So that’s just three weeks. Right? Wrong! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!!! That quote — the one that says it takes 21 days to form a new habit — is actually kind of a misquote. A quote that has mutated. Back in the 1950’s, a plastic surgeon named Maxwell Maltz noticed a […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: couch, dining room, dinner, eating, goal, goals, habit, habits, New Years, Resolutions, television

Comfort Zones Are For Wimps

December 30, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I first joined the swim team when I was ten years old. I wasn’t good — at all — but I loved it. By the time I got to high school, I was fairly decent. I was All-State my sophomore, junior, and senior year. I swam at Lehigh all four years. I was one of […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bathing suit, boobs, comfort zone, pool, suit, swim, swimming

I’m not the sad fat person on the left.

May 23, 2015 by not your average mom 5 Comments

So one of my goals is to help women, and moms in particular, to reclaim their inner badass. I think it’s so easy to lose this once you have kids. Initially, it’s kind of required. You need to make it all about the baby in the first few months. But sometimes the months turn to […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Not Your Average Fitness Course, setting an example for your children, weight loss e-courses

Weunited, and it feels so gooooood….

January 12, 2015 by not your average mom 5 Comments

Number 6 can’t pronounce his r’s. It’s vewy cute, and I’m in no rush for him to learn. On Christmas he got a little stuffed turkey. And he named it. appropriately enough, “Turkey.” Which he pronounces Tokey. Last week, we brought Tokey to the gym with us. Against my better judgement, I let Number 6 take […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: lost stuffed animals.

Dear Lost

January 6, 2015 by not your average mom 27 Comments

The other day I received a message on the Facebook page from a reader.  I asked her if I could publish it anonymously, and write my response in a post. Because I don’t think she is alone. At all. Here is what she wrote (published with permission): Today I read your “Have you moved out […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: advice, lost, motherhood

8 Annoying People You See at the Gym

December 28, 2014 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

We are approaching that time of year when people resolve to get in shape and purchase a gym membership. If you are new to the gym, I feel I should warn you about something. After attending 4 bazillion fitness and spin classes myself, and after performing hours of careful scientific observation, I have determined that […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Funny Stuff, Sound Mind Sound Body, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: fitness and weight loss, gym memberships, working out

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